Seems like an interesting approach:
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An R package that provides read/write access to data and metadata from the DataONE network of Member Node data repositories. Member Nodes in DataONE are independent data repositories that have adopted the DataONE services for interoperability, making each of the repositories accessible to client tools such as the DataONE R Client using a standard interface. The DataONE R Client can be used to access data files and to write new data and metadata files to nodes in the DataONE network.
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though I presume that the DataONE services for interoperability are not widely adopted.
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Subject: [open-science] release of DataONE R Client packages
The DataONE team is happy to announce the release of the first version of the DataONE R Client, our package for accessing open data in DataONE from within the R environment for statistical computing. The DataONE R Client provides the ability to access open ecological, environmental, and earth science data from the DataONE network of repositories, and to save data from within R to DataONE repositories that support write access. Because data are accessed via their published, unique identifiers (rather than a local file path), R scripts can be written to be portable across different users, and thus can be more effectively published themselves.
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University of California Santa Barbara
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